Re: Selective HTML rendering using group parameters

[Nelson Ferreira <nelson.ferreira@ieee.org>]

An update below...

"njsf" == Nelson Ferreira <nelson.ferreira@ieee.org> writes:

    njsf> Hi all,
    njsf> I came across a weird issue regarding group-parameters and
    njsf> "group-local" variables.

    njsf> I have the following in my gnus:

    njsf> ,---- .gnus ----
    njsf> | (setq 
    njsf> |  mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display)
    njsf> |  mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext" "text/enriched" "multipart/related")
    njsf> |  )
    njsf> `----

    njsf> in order to have HTML rendering off by default.  However
    njsf> there are some mailing lists I subscribed where the HTML is
    njsf> well-formed enough (and there is no option for text-only :(
    njsf> ) where I wanted to enable html rendering by default on
    njsf> those groups.

    njsf> So I tried the following in the group parameters of one of
    njsf> the groups with "good" HTML:

    njsf> ,---- group parameters ---
    njsf> | ((mm-automatic-display
    njsf> |   (append
    njsf> |    (list "text/html")
    njsf> |    mm-automatic-display))
    njsf> |  (mm-discouraged-alternatives
    njsf> |   (remove "text/html"
    njsf> |           (remove "multipart/related" mm-discouraged-alternatives))))
    njsf> `----

    njsf> Sure enough if I press space from the *Group* buffer, the
    njsf> HTML in the message is rendered, and it so happens in all
    njsf> other messages in that "summary buffer session" .

    njsf> However, if no message is immediately rendered (I press
    njsf> ENTER or only ticked articles are in the summary buffer)
    njsf> then when the article is shown, the HTML is not rendered.

    njsf> I looked at the value of both mm-automatic-display and
    njsf> mm-discouraged-alternatives and it looks like that if upon
    njsf> entering the group the article buffer is created then
    njsf> their values are the one coming from the group parameters,
    njsf> otherwise the defaults (i.e. from .gnus) are used.

    njsf> Is there any way to make sure that the group parameter set
    njsf> values for variables are always transported to the article
    njsf> buffer regardless of the moment in time it is created ?

I tried adding mm-automatic-display and mm-discouraged-alternatives
to gnus-summary-local-variables and then playing with .gnus to set
the default value and the group parameters to deal with getting the
default and changing it in the group parameters with mostly the same
results.

Thanks,

        Nelson


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